Does anyone else just not care anymore?

[Sinnertwin]

Behold.... Snaggertron! And these... shall be your onions...

Hahaha! i can hear Orson now

[Hursticon]

It's a little-known fact that the Transformers themselves only started their war when Amalgamous Prime convinced Megatronus Prime and Liege Maximo that Rumble was purple, while Prima and the rest of the Thirteen believed Rumble was red. Millions of years later, the Autobots and Decepticons have no idea what they're fighting about, but they're sure it's important.

Hehe, lol - Oh I liked that one.

[Ode to a Grasshopper]

That said, FIRRIB. And all you FIBRIR heathens need to think about how you're ruining your lives by turning away from the one, true colour scheme. I can only hope The Cassette Twins come into your hearts and show you the true way one day.

NOOOOO! Then there won't be room on the spaceship when the Holy Trukk summons His Planet-Destroying Moon to smite the heathen Munky worshipers...

[ITZTRU]

I've been into the G1 cartoons since they were released. Never really started collecting again until I was older and came across my first Masterpiece toy on the shelves of some Japanese toy store in the city and couldn't believe how awesome it looked. (MP07 IIRC). Wanted to know more about them and where to buy them. Came across this site as a result. I'm not nearly as active as many of you, but I don't think it makes me any less of a fan...

[kup]

Anyone who became a fan because of the movies, and years later is still solely a fan because of the movies is definitely at the bottom of my perceived fandom hierarchy.

hmmm...I wish I could be politically correct about this and refute your perception but I can't

[kup]

So what if you were a life long fan but didn't actually know of a particular fansite's existence, until you were verbally bludgeoned into joining said site at the behest of a best friend & current member, at a time that was chronologically "smack-bang" in the middle of the 1st Bayverse-movie period?

My fan community membership only predates the movies by a year or so but still within the 'movie hype' era of around 2006/7. However my motivations for joining had nothing to do with movies, I had already been following the franchise since it's conception in the 1980s . Although I strongly disliked the Unicron Era, I watched it on Channel 10 almost every morning and kept up with everything including knowledge of the Japanese G1 cartoons long before I met a fellow fan or joined OTCA.

However before 2006, I was not actively collecting any toys...I was still traumatized by my father getting rid of my entire childhood toy collection when I turned 10 years old. His argument was that toys were for small kids and I should no longer play with them so it all got sent to St Vincent de Paul and other charities. Basically, I still had an induced stigma of 'Toys are only for kids' although I never truly believed it.

At that point in time in 2006, I had followed Beast Wars sporadically through what I could catch on TV after school during the 90s so I was yet to watch the entire series proper. I ended up buying the 3 seasons on DVD and re-watched it all as a whole. I was immediately 'hyped' on it specially when I had only recently re-watched the whole G1 run on DVD. This prompted me to seek out to re-acquire and re-read the G1 Marvel comics, introduce myself to the UK run and explore as much as I could possible get my hands on.

During this period while going out with a girl, we walked past a Target and she mentioned wanting to buy a bra. I thought it was a bit inappropriate (and weird) of me to go and browse for a bra with her so I said I would be checking out the other sections and that I would come and find her later. I ventured over to the toy isles randomly and that's when I saw the BW 10th anniversary Primal and Megatron with MP-02 Magnus..I stood there looking at those toys for ages wanting to buy them but the 'toys are for kids' stigma my father had ingrained in me was very strong still so I remained there a long time just repeatedly picking up the boxes and putting them back on the shelf. My friend later finds me and sees me looking at the toys like zombie for a couple of minutes and in a frustrated tone says "Why don't you just buy them already!" and that was the push I needed!

That's how my toy collection begun.

As a result of that I eventually decided and wanted to collect G1, went to the Parra fair by myself and bought an incomplete G1 Magnus. I needed parts and was ignorant of the ebay trade so I decided to try and network to see if there are other fans - First, I decided to see if there was a local 'Botcon' in Australia and there kind of was! However I had missed it by a week! doh! I tried to find out more about the people who organized it and came across the Ozformers board and the rest is history!

[Raptormesh]

Anyone who became a fan because of the movies, and years later is still solely a fan because of the movies is definitely at the bottom of my perceived fandom hierarchy.

Lol this is definitely me as I only started buying TF toys with the advent of ROTF. Started one day as I went to check out the movie deluxes on a break and picked up sideswipe(swords!!). Then I had to get sideways because SS lacks a sparring partner and that wouldn't do. A week later read a review on HA bee at CollectionDX and practically flew to Kmart to get it and Thrust(my fav TF toy to this day). I still remember grinning like a champ at the checkout line.

That said however I grew up with transformers Victory(and Robotech/Macross) and have been a lifelong fan though toys have never been in my reach. My TF collection is meager, as a large proportion of my Hobby dollars goes into Macross birds. Never regretted getting into it though.

[Sinnertwin]

Sometimes. I was looking at my collection recently, thinking of all the time and money i've sunk into this franchise, thinking what if i hadn't etc... then something awesome like the Takara repaints of the BH will come along and it'll rekindle my passion

[Verno]

The recently announced Generations Rhinox and Waspinator sum up my relationship to the Transformers franchise perfectly.

A lot of waiting, a lot of ignoring... But eventually, you get tossed a little gem or two by the powers that be and that makes up for the amassed frustrations. They will be picked up and will tide me over to the next little nod in a few years.

[Trent]

I'm on a bit of a low now, but it's just due to a lack of display options. At the moment all but 5 of my TFs are packed away because I've got nowhere to display them. So it brings on a 'What's the point?' mentality. That'll change soon though. I'm currently working on a display solution. A few months should see my problems solved